CoD Abroad: Ghana
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Friday, January 15, 2016
Jan. 8
Our last day in Ghana - We started our last day of the trip off
with going to the Ghana Independence Memorial and Museum dedicated to Kwame
Nkrumah who helped Ghana gain their independence on March 6, 1957. We then went
back to the coffin makers where Stephen gifted us all with woodcarvings
silhouetting Africa, which we all made him sign for us. The rest of the day was
spent packing and getting ready back at the hostel for the long travels
awaiting us. Our flight out of Accra was at ten so we started making our way to
the airport around seven where we had a few friends there to say our goodbyes
to, including our bus drivers. The airport was a bit confusing, but we all made
it to our gate with time to spare. While sitting and waiting, Chris and Tammi
handed back to us our applications for the trip from the beginning of the
semester. It was a great time to read and reflect how much we’ve learned in the
past five months and the memories we’ll have to share down the road (that
hopefully won’t have as many speed bumps).
Nicole and Cori
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Jan. 7
We all woke up from our first night staying at the pink hostel. All nine girls were in one room while four boys were in the other. I think it is safe to say no one slept very well that night due to our AC being stuck at one temperature, which left us all shivering the whole night.
-Brianna
and Korey
Jan. 6
Some of us got up at the early hour of 6 to have one last
swim before we packed into the bus at 11 to leave for Accra. After the 3-4 hour
drive we headed to the Omanye House, a contemporary art gallery full of
beautiful art by Ghanaian artists. The art was beautiful, unfortunately we were
unable to take pictures. After the art gallery we headed to Pink Hostel where
we were split up by gender all ten girls were placed in a room with 5 bunk beds
that are all about a foot apart and one bathroom to share. The boys all
received their own bunk bed to themselves with an entire room to walk about as
well as their own bathroom. We crammed into out crowded room of bunk beds to go
to sleep only to awake in the night freezing.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Jan. 5
Today
we got a tour of Cape Coast Castle. The Castle is actually a slave castle on
the coast of Ghana that has been there for around 500 years. Many European
countries operated the slave castle during those years, including Portugal and
England. The castle was a midway point for slaves to be held before getting on
the boats for the Americas. The castle’s “balcony” area looked out over the
ocean, it was beautiful. You could see fishing boats coming in and going out,
it was really a site to behold. The tour of the castle was very emotional; most
of us stayed very silent and respected the historical significance of the slave
castle on society. The tour ended with everyone going out the “Door of no
return,” to the ocean, but on the other side the fishing village was full of
life. People were patching netting, getting ready to push out, bringing in the
days catch, and on the top of the door it said, “Door of return.”
-Caroline
Freese
Jan. 4
Today started early, but we were excited to head to Scott's
because our clothes we got measured for were waiting for us! Everything turned
out wonderful and we are all very pleased with our new clothes. After we all said our goodbyes we headed out
to do a canopy walk. We walked along rope bridges 140 feet in the air! Most
people really enjoyed it. Emily, Korey and Sarah raced to the end. A lot of us
found out we are a little out of shape, others afraid of heights. After this we
had another ride to Coconut Grove Resort. By far most of our favorite resort on
the trip! It was right on the ocean and had a pool and restaurant. Very
relaxing and fun. For Nathan being his first time he acted like a child (as did
most of us). Even Emily, who is terrified of the ocean enjoyed body surfing in
the waves. It was a nice night of relaxing and enjoying ourselves.
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